Story design expert and VSN screenwriting instructor, SJ Murray recently gave a TEDx Talk called HARDWIRED FOR STORY on how stories graft themselves into our minds, hearts, and imaginations. She believes insanely great stories change hearts and, in turn, the world.

I woke up this morning to find this Hollywood Reporter article in my in-box. I thought I had stumbled onto a porn site. I actually don't even want to repeat the headline. You can read it for yourself. But suffice to say, it's time to take my own industry to the woodshed.

Apparently some of the broadcast TV networks and writer-producers have so much HBO envy…